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CBA opens tech hub in Brisbane and works with UQ, QUT, TAFE Queensland

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Neil Horrocks, Director of Data Energy Innovation at UQ, said: “There is significant potential for education to work with the tech hub on a range of initiatives and we look forward to continuing those discussions over the coming weeks and months. UQ welcomes opportunities for our students that may arise as a result of these future partnerships.”  

Professor Lori Lockyer, Executive Dean of QUT, commented: “We commend CBA in initiating this important partnership with the School of Design in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. With strong skills in user experience design and user interface design, our students are well placed to further advance CBA’s tech hub initiative. We look forward to broadening the partnership to engineering, data science and IT from our Faculties of Science and Engineering.”

Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design, TAFE Queensland, said the partnership with CBA would offer graduates a pathway into technology careers with an iconic Australian organisation closer to home.

“Queensland already has a vibrant digital community with a well-established pipeline of graduates,” said Ms French. “As the state’s largest training provider, we’re delighted to partner with CBA to supply skilled and job-ready information technology, cyber security, website and software developer graduates for the placements this program will deliver.”

CBA is building out its presence in tech hubs across the nation to continue to position itself as a global digital bank and a leader in digital experiences and technology.

Banner image: Brendan Hopper, CBA’s  Chief Information Officer for Technology; Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design at TAFE Queensland; and Miriam Fox, CBA’s General Manager HR for Technology, at Mt Gravatt TAFE (Paul Harris)

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Solved! Is There a Security Camera That Works Without Wi-Fi?

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Is There a Security Camera That Works Without Wi-Fi

Photo: istockphoto.com

Q: There are so many security cameras on the market now, and with a slight rise in crime in my neighborhood I’d like to get one. However, my Wi-Fi is spotty on a good day, plus I’m not sure I know enough about securing my network against hackers. Are there security cameras that don’t require Wi-Fi?

A: DIY security cameras have taken the market by storm and enabled many homeowners and renters to feel safer in their homes. Traditional home security companies have also risen to the challenge, offering security packages that are a combination of DIY and professionally installed cameras and sensors. Wi-Fi has enabled this huge expansion of the security camera industry. Previously, all cameras (and most sensors, for that matter) had to be hard-wired into a home’s electrical and telephone system, through which the security system transmitted information. The cameras would connect to a video recorder; originally analog, then digital. This meant that the security system installation cost was high, and the process was labor-intensive and permanent.

With Wi-Fi transmission, cameras and sensors can be battery-powered or require a single electrical cable, and they can transmit messages and videos to the cloud or to a physical digital recorder without a web of wires spread across the walls. Users can install cameras anywhere they want to—indoors or outdoors—and change those locations as they see fit. The best home security systems have WiFi-integrated cameras as options, or they may even use them exclusively. Simple to DIY install, they are among the best apartment security systems as well, since the technology can move with the residents.

But not everyone has Wi-Fi, and some who do are concerned about the vulnerability of transferring video recordings of their home over the air, which is not an invalid concern. Although Wi-Fi can be secured, there’s no system that’s completely foolproof. Luckily, there are several types of security cameras that don’t use Wi-Fi. These cameras come in various sizes and functions. There are solid outdoor cameras that don’t need Wi-Fi, as well as smaller indoor house cameras that don’t need Wi-Fi and tuck almost invisibly…

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SSU dismantles an infowar botnet. HIMARS, atrocities, provocation, and disinformation. A Russian disinformation mouthpiece raises the prospect that there are highly placed traitors in the GRU. Rewards for Justice works toward securing elections from Russian meddling. The case that Russia’s war is genocidal. The case that pan-Slavism has found wayward, but sincere, expression in Mr. Putin’s war.

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At a glance.

  • SSU dismantles an infowar botnet.
  • HIMARS, atrocities, provocation, and disinformation.
  • A Russian disinformation mouthpiece raises the prospect that there are highly placed traitors in the GRU.
  • Rewards for Justice works toward securing elections from Russian meddling.
  • The case that Russia’s war is genocidal.
  • The case that pan-Slavism has found wayward, but sincere, expression in Mr. Putin’s war.

Ukraine claims to have taken down a massive Russian bot farm.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) says it dismantled a large Russian botnet operation that was being used to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation. The bots, about a million strong, were herded from locations within Ukraine itself, in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Vinnytsia, BleepingComputer reports. Their output took the form of social media posts from inauthentic accounts associated with fictitious personae. The SSU describes the operation as follows: “Their latest ‘activities’ include the distribution of content on the alleged conflict between the leadership of the President’s Office and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as well as a campaign to discredit the first lady. To spin destabilizing content, perpetrators administered over 1 million of their own bots and numerous groups in social networks with an audience of almost 400,000 users. In the course of a multi-stage special operation, the SSU exposed the leader of this criminal group. He is a russian citizen who has lived in Kyiv and positioned himself as a ‘political expert.’”

On the other side of the information war, BleepingComputer also reported earlier this week that Ukrainian hacktivists, “Torrents of Truth,” were bundling instructions on how to bypass Russian censorship into movie torrents whose intended audience would be Russian viewers.

HIMARS, atrocities, provocation, and disinformation.

The killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka is by now clearly a Russian atrocity–the prisoners were apparently murdered by their captors. (And we note in passing that the International Committee of the Red Cross still has not been given the access to the prison international law requires.) The prisoners did not die in a…

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The Works hit by hackers, UK retailer shuts some stores after problems with payment tills

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UK high street retailer The Works has shut some of its stores following a “cyber security incident” which saw hackers gain unauthorised access to its systems.

According to a statement issued by the firm, which has over 500 stores across the country selling a range of cut-price books, art and craft materials, gifts, and stationery, the attack has caused issues with payment tills which have forced the closure of some stores:

There has been some limited disruption to trading and business operations, including the closure of some stores due to till issues. Replenishment deliveries to the Group’s stores were suspended temporarily and the normal delivery window for the fulfilment of online orders was extended, but store deliveries are expected to resume imminently and the normal online service levels are progressively being reintroduced.

While customers are experiencing longer delivery times for online orders, some stores are reported to only be accepting cash.

According to the retailer, customers have not had their payment card details exposed as a result of the security breach:

“All debit and credit card payment data are processed securely outside the group’s systems, via accredited third-party networks, and, therefore, there is no risk that this payment data has been accessed improperly.”

The Works says that it was “alerted to the incident by the operation of its security firewall,” and has disabled all internal and external access to its systems – including email – while it investigates the hack with an external team of cybersecurity experts.

In its statement, The Works has not confirmed that it suffered a ransomware attack and there is no indication that it has received a demand for cash from its attackers.

However, some media outlets are claiming that sources close to the incident are saying that computer systems were hit with ransomware after an employee fell victim to a malicious email.

The Works says that it has “made some immediate protective changes to further strengthen its security position,” and has informed the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in case any customer data might have been exposed by the breach.

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